India provided Algeria with US$1 million as humanitarian aid for "the victims of the earthquake which struck Algeria in May 2003. Medicines worth half a million US dollars were handed over in April 2004 and the balance in the form of construction steel for the houses for the victims was handed over in October 2006." The Indian Space Research Organisation, the Indian Government's main space agency managing the Indian Space Programme, launched the Algerian Satellite Alsat 2A into the orbit in July 2010.[5]